#DU Petruccio

[moonfurthetemmie]

cracks knuckles

So. In normal Dreamtale, Dream and Nightmare are really, really durable. And they have a lot of power in their lil skeleton bodies.

In the JMV, DINTIS, and DS versions, corruption isn't the magic from the Tree getting fucked up, it's specifically a more potent version of negativity. And radiance is the more potent version of positivity.

Radiants and corrupts are fully-powered negative and positive spirits. Ergo, radiants and corrupts have far more power than base positive and negative spirits

Also, like I said, spirits are pretty durable. I'm sure corrupts and radiants are more durable as well.

...obsidian certainly seems to be. He's definitely an extremely powerful spirit, at the very least.

I would imagine a being that already has surprisingly vast power reserves and incredible durability, for a mortal, would make an excellent vessel for an ancient, incomprehensible being.

Let's hope that, should they meet Obsidian, Gonzalo and Petruccio don't have the same thought I had :))

if he hurts one of them though he's DEFINITELY fucked

[teecupangel]

This is because @ma-du who tagged me on this post with the idea:

Everything is the same, but the gang is reborn as Marvel characters

I am going to assume this means that the characters' personalities stay the same, it's just that they have been reborn to live the lives of Marvel characters (Assassins versus Templars plot optional XD)

Alright.

First of all, we’ll focus on MCU characters because having the ability to choose from the entire Marvel roster will… well… it would require more research that would probably take too much time XD

Also, I will primarily be using Phase 1~3 MCU characters (focusing on the Avengers with some exceptions) because the post did have Infinity Saga MCU characters (yeah, that’s the main reason why).

Alright, let’s give everyone some new problems!

Desmond: Moon Knight. Okay, he’s the main reason why I said ‘with some exceptions’. I mean… come on. Come oooonnn. Oh course, Desmond will still suffer thru the Bleeding Episodes which would lead him to be the AC equivalent of Moon Knight. Not to mention, just imagine the absolute fuckery he will suffer thru when he meets up with the reincarnated versions of his ancestors while he still have his ancestors in his brain as the Bleeding Effect. Instead of Khonsu though, I suggest we go for Ra (for the sun irony) or, if you wanna stay in the Greco-Roman mythology that was strongest in Desmond Saga, may I suggest Minerva (to make Minerva suffer with him) or Dionysus?

Altaïr: Doctor Strange, hands down. Used to be an arrogant overachiever? Taken down a peg by some kind of tragedy? Still a bit of an asshole but now has an entire subject he could spend the rest of his life studying and be the top expert still? Becomes leader of a secret-ish organization trying to protect the world in what amounts to a short time all things considered? OP powers with a lot of glowing gold accents AND holds an OP artifact? Altaïr is, hands down, the nearest Doctor Strange we will have on this list. Sidenote: Malik gets Wong’s job of being the usually annoyed dude that has to keep Altaïr from bending the rules too much. The Sanctum Masters are the Rafiqs of Damascus and Jerusalem + Kadar. Karl Mordo will have to be Abbas (sorry Karl Mordo) while Al Mualim would either take the Ancient One (if we plan to keep him good in this one) or Kaecilius.

Ezio: Iron Man. He comes from a rich family with lots of connections, is actually smarter than people usually assume he is, flirts a lot but also carries a torch for a specific person in his life, and a tragedy in his life changed him. Of course, his father wasn’t a dick to him (up to you if we gonna kill Giovanni and Maria off for drama), Federico gets reborn as Happy (who is still Ezio’s brother but preferred to be his security officer), Claudia is still his sister but has Pepper Pott’s job (although, everyone in Auditore Industries knows it’s really Claudia who takes care of the everyday operation, Ezio is the inventor and the face of the company, Claudia is the shadow queen) and Cesare gets to be Justin Hammer. Petruccio can be the kid in Ironman 3 or he's just living his life as the third Auditore child who has cool 'toys' to help his weak body that his brother made for him.

Ratonhnhaké:ton: We can go for Hawkeye/Ronin, the normal human who can keep up with everything that’s happening (also, he would make a good parental figure for the Frye twins). Also, even if we call him ‘normal’, we all know he could kick everyone’s ass thru sheer determination and stubbornness alone. Another option would be Black Panther but I kinda want Adéwalé to be Black Panther?

Haytham: … is it weird I kinda want him to be Nick Fury? Like… he’s the all-time suffering man in charge who doesn’t actually have any authority over any of the superheroes he ‘conscripted’? I just want Haytham to suffer while, for once, not being on the other side.

Edward: Okay… I mean… I know there would be a Phase 1~3 character that would work for him, the easiest would be making him part of the Asgardian family drama but, may I suggest a non-MCU character? Daimon Helstrom. Because Edward’s actor Matt Ryan is sooo good as Constantine that I will always think of him as Constantine. Helstrom is the nearest Marvel equivalent to Constantine and he’s also a free agent type which works well with Edward’s character for most of Black Flag. (plus I got “canceled after a good season 1” deja vu with Helstrom as I did with Constantine). If you really want him to be part of Phase 1~3, Antman (Scott Lang) would work with Jenny taking the place of the daughter Cassie.

Shay: If Haytham is our Nick Fury, Shay gets to be his Maria Hill (second-in-command, normal human that can kick so much ass, and… that tight outfit) or Phil Coulson if you wanna go down the route of Shay doing his own thing.

Arno: Spider-Man because I think Ezio mentoring him would be a nice touch and… his first love Élise being a Templar is kinda similar to how Liz was the Vulture’s daughter. Still thinking about who his Ned should be though.

Evie and Jacob: Look, we’re talking about twins here so I’m pretty much obligated to make Evie and Jacob Wanda and Pietro. Although, this time, Jacob’s not gonna die. XD

Bayek: Steve Rogers (no, he will not be called Captain America, think of a more ‘universal’ superhero name) because he’s an all-around good guy, his default weapon in AC promotional images has him using a shield, and he started out as a man who just wanted to do what was right and protect his people that got sucked into the overarching plot because of a tragedy. Also… Aya as a badass normal human like Peggy Carter, hhhmmm?

Kassandra: You know, I was thinking that Kassandra could be Steve Rogers with Alexios becoming Winter Soldier. (Which I think would still work, we’ll just have to change Bayek into someone else…) But Kassandra has to be Captain Marvel, right? The OP powers and “not to be a lesbian but oh my god oh my god” vibes she gave off just made her suited to be Captain Marvel more.

Eivor: She’s gotta be reborn as Thor, right? Like… sure, Odin is right there but Eivor’s love for fighting and her loyalty to her people feels more like Thor than Odin. (Let’s not make AC Odin reborn as MCU Odin. I’d even go for Varin to be reborn as her father again or even Sigurd to have a bit of arrogance at this point)

Basim: Look. We all know Basim’s gonna be reborn as… Korg. Of course, I’m kidding. He’ll be reborn as Loki as we all expected. XD

Clay: Deadpool. He’s supposed to be dead, his mind got shattered after receiving his ‘superpowers’, and… he’s the only person in this cast other than Desmond that actually remembers who he was before. His whole ‘knows about the fourth wall’ shtick is connected to the fact that he still has access to the Calculations and that’s actually what broke his mind… again.

[ao3feed-assassinscreed]

Au bord du gouffre

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2Qf4hOp

by Nearween

Ezio voit son monde s'écrouler, alors que sa famille se fait pendre sous ses yeux. À la dérive et sombrant dans une vie violente, il est confronté aux sept étapes du deuil.

Words: 149, Chapters: 1/8, Language: Français

Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, Multi

Characters: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Federico Auditore da Firenze, Claudia Auditore da Firenze, Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, Maria Auditore da Firenze, Petruccio Auditore da Firenze, Leonardo da Vinci, Sofia Sartor

Relationships: Ezio Auditore da Firenze/Leonardo da Vinci, Ezio Auditore da Firenze/Desmond Miles, Ezio Auditore da Firenze/Sofia Sartor

Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Depression, Death, Guilt, Drama & Romance, Drama, Poetry, Français | French, Happy Ending

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2Qf4hOp

[moonfurthetemmie]

Deimos’ Understudy: Horror Theater Kid AU Master post

Nicknames

Gonzalo and Petruccio

Alinda

Phobos and Deimos

Everyone else

Yighraru

The Rings

Bonus content: Carter

It’s been one hundred twenty-two years since the cursed rings of Yighraru came into Jade and Obsidian’s possession. Despite how long they’ve been working, only in the past few years have they made notable progress. The one who was meant to stop them is dead. Her organization, wiped out. They have a highly effective team behind them, and one of them is as dedicated as they are.

Some months ago, however, they made the (potentially fatal) mistake of pulling one Umbra into their madness. It happened so quickly that Astra’s jealousy almost didn’t cover his concern. In trying to dig up even the pettiest of dirt on Jade and Obsidian to get Umbra away from them, Astra finds a much more serious problem lurking beneath the surface. Something far bigger than any of them.

Everyone who lives with Jade and Obsidian has been touched by it.

Including Umbra.

Now Astra must find a way to stop this madness, despite his desire to just grab Umbra and leave everyone else to their fate. But Jade and Obsidian are trying to pull him in, too, and they’ve had decades to perfect their acting and manipulation skills.

The odds are against him. But if it means getting Umbra back and away from anyone who tries to take him from Astra, then he’ll find a way through.

The clock is counting down. Jade and Obsidian aren't as patient as their master.

Notes:

Astra (Jet) and Umbra (Dark) are from another Horror version of DINTIS that, at the time of this post being written, hasn’t been released. There’s some little comments and fun facts shared about them (mostly Astra) in the AU tag for Deimos’ Understudy, though, and eventually I do plan on talking about the AU (and the corresponding JMV AU) that Astra and Umbra come from >:]

Carter’s cool you should go look at him :3 (please 👉👈 look at my most fucked up beloved yet) (except for ebony in certain fics/aus/etc. pats his head. this baby can fit so much trauma and mental & emotional instability in him)

The lore is all over the place. Please feel free to dive through the tags and consume everything.

[moonfurthetemmie]

Some time ago I learned that sign language can have accents.

Ex. Signing with a ‘drawl’.

I assumed that meant it could also have tones; angry, joking, sad, whatever.

then I went ‘wait hold on’ and looked it up and the answer is Yes

So with that in mind,,,

Petruccio and Gonzalo are Deimos’ main sign language teachers. They also are flirting with him big-time and have that kind of tone to their signs

Deimos probably won’t realize that his signing always comes across as flirty until someone—most likely Lodovico or Antonio, since they rely on it the most—points it out to him

And which point he gets really, really irritated with Petruccio and Gonzalo, and also himself because he did notice that Antonio and Lodovico signed with…well, not that tone. At least, not that he’s seen. He feels a little stupid

But in all fairness that’s how he talks to most people anyways. So. He just has to tone it down a little bit.

(He notices a lot of them relax a little around him once he does. Oops…?)

[moonfurthetemmie]

so with the addition of this lass, I'm (already) retconing lore.

Please welcome this alternate of a character that barely existed in normal JMV. Peridot; or, in this AU:

Alinda

She should have been the protagonist. The hero. But Gonzalo and Petruccio made sure she didn't have the chance.

Alinda managed to put all the pieces together of what’s happening. She tried to stop it. She kept it super secret, though. She didn’t want to get too many people involved, because she knew that those two would find out she was onto them quickly. She recruited a few people, yes, but not even her husband knew anything about it.

Her husband, by the way? Antonio.

Alinda was, at one point, military. She and Antonio both, though they retired from that when they found out they had a daughter coming. They both had ‘normal’ civilian jobs, and there was always at least one person home to take care of little Peony.

The actual reason Gonzalo and Petruccio targeted Antonio’s family is because they needed Alinda out of the way. Antonio is told the same thing that I originally said; that they just needed a sacrifice and didn’t want to put on a whole big show of it with just the two of them. But that isn’t true.

Gonzalo and Petruccio tried to destroy any notes or documents she made of what she found out. But there were many, many copies. Her cohorts had at least one each, and there were more in their ‘base’.

They found each of her teammates and their sets of notes.

They never did find their base.

Deimos, however, does. Entirely by accident.

Alinda was created by the Tree of Feelings. Having watched Gonzalo and Petruccio’s descent into madness, the Tree knew that someone needed to stop them. It intended to use the magic of the two spirits within it to create a third guardian to keep the other two in line, but they, unaware of its plan, stole the power themselves. The Tree had just enough magic left to make Alinda’s form and give her life, and a mission, but she has no magical abilities beyond unnatural physical strength and an extended lifespan.

As she didn’t have any magic, nor really any idea what she was supposed to stop Gonzalo and Petruccio from doing, Alinda wandered around a while. Eventually she stumbled into Antonio’s home AU, where she stayed almost exclusively until she found some way to reliably travel between universes, which likely involved some magical technology bullshit. However, by that point she’d gotten quite comfortable in this AU, and decided she’d just. Live there.

She joined the military for a number of reasons. Namely for the combat training, to be nosy and snoop to see if anyone’s heard anything about Gonzalo or Petruccio, and to try to find people who can help her deal with a couple of crazy bastards.

For a while she doesn’t find much. Gonzalo and Petruccio are keeping low. But slowly they start making Big Scenes™. They weren’t nearly as big as the shit they’re doing in the present, but enough that they’re hearing about it from other AUs. Alinda rallies her little group and they start making plans.

They have a hell of a lot of trouble, though. It doesn’t help that Gonzalo and Petruccio are constantly on the move, and they can never, ever predict where they’ll strike next. But they are getting some good intel. Bits and pieces. As Alinda gathers these bits and pieces to present to the whole group she goes “...oh. Ohhh no”

Sometime in the middle of all that she meets Antonio and they fall in love etc etc.

She’s. Unsure. When he asks her to marry him. She wants to. But it would be so dangerous…

So she says something like “I have a very important mission, that was given to me literally the day I was born. And it’s very, very likely that I would put you in danger just telling you about it. I love you. I really do. But I absolutely cannot tell you anything. I’ve got a few people helping me, but even that feels like too much, and god damn it I can’t put you in that danger. I’ll marry you, if you are willing to accept that I’m going to be hiding something very important from you.”

Lovestruck fool that he was, Antonio agreed. They were very happy together! Peony’s conception freaked Alinda out a lot but things had been very quiet for a while. And honestly, an excuse to leave the military, to have more time not only with Beloved but also to find Gonzalo and Petruccio, was…very tempting.

Alinda had a 20-point plan made for how she’d keep her family safe if Gonzalo and Petruccio found out about her, and a second, more complex plan for if they also found out about said family. She had taken all the precautions she could think of, and even asked her cohorts if they could think of anything else.

There’s a good chance Alinda knew they were coming. She called Antonio to get home quickly, and had Peony start packing, so they could run as far and as quickly as possible. At which point she’d have to explain everything to Antonio, but he deserved that much.

But Gonzalo and Petruccio moved in too quickly. She’d only just hung up the call with Antonio when they grabbed her and Peony by surprise.

Alinda had sounded nervous when she called, but did a very good job acting like it wasn’t a huge deal. Peony was already freaked out. She needed to stay calm. And Gonzalo and Petruccio acted like it was tooootally random.

Gonzalo and Petruccio decide that it would be a very poetic form of revenge to make Antonio work for them, after poor Alina tried soooo hard to stop them. Him turning out to be an excellent fighter was just a wonderful surprise.

A few years later, when Deimos stumbles upon the last remaining notes that Alinda and her team had compiled, he finds way, way more than he’d been able to figure out so far.

He’s heard the name ‘Yighraru’ before. He’s very alarmed to find out what manner of being Yighraru is.

He also finds some speculation on whether or not they’re going to try and summon Yighraru, or if they’re just going to sacrifice people to it. Some speculation on how the summoning might work, whether or not the dramatics are just Gonzalo and Petruccio being Gonzalo and Petruccio or if it has something to do with the worship of Yighraru. So on.

He takes the notes to the castle he and Phobos live(d) in. Makes a digital copy. Changes some keywords and names, rephrases a lot of stuff. Maybe organizes it better for himself. Then locks it behind a couple of different passwords, so that, hopefully, no one else can get into it, and doesn’t understand the significance of they do. But especially not Gonzalo, Petruccio, Bella, or (and it hurts him to even think it) Phobos.

He pokes his nose around the manor a little more, and makes a mental note of what the mysterious writer was right about, what was incorrect, and so on. He adds to the notes with his own discoveries.

He is now much better prepared that he was before. But it still might not be enough.

[moonfurthetemmie]

So i said that part of Gonzalo and Petruccio's separation anxiety and jealousy was because, when the rings showed up and everyone else killed each other, some people almost found where they were hiding

And while i think that's definitely going to be part of why they're so protective of each other, but i think the rest is more from travelers who came by afterwards.

Do you think two kids who just witnessed such a horrific scene would've buried the bodies? Especially with how awful the villagers were to Gonzalo in particular?

Maybe some of their friends from the traveling theater troupe, but most of the bodies were probably ignored.

Imagine being on a long journey, and you see a sign that points to a nearby village, and you decide to stop to rest and maybe stock up on supplies.

But it's empty. Not a soul to be found.

Until you find your way to the stage set up near a hill with a strange tree on it, and you find the rotting corpses of everyone who had lived here. There's blood on the stage, maybe still in the grass.

And then these two kids come down from the hill. They look human, but not quite. They have these odd rings on chains around their necks. They ask you where you came from. They look at the corpses with disgust but seem otherwise unbothered.

Something is wrong with them. They look at you like a spider watching a fly as it wanders near the web. The younger of the two looks like he's expecting you to attack them, and is ready to stab you if you try.

And they will kill travelers sometimes.

Sometimes their guests realized that they're in danger before it gets that far and are ready to defend themselves.

Sometimes their guests know about the Tree and want to steal the fruit, through whatever means necessary.

Sometimes (though rarely) their guests are also looking for a new victim, and don't care if they're kids if it'll satiate their bloodlust.

And sometimes their guests noticed absolutely nothing, and just felt bad for the two kids living alone with nothing but each other and the remains of the dead for company.

They've probably been tricked and forcibly separated from each other multiple times. Each time, whoever went off with the stranger got hurt and almost died.

Or the stranger tried to 'adopt' one of them and take them away.

Occasionally there are other kids. Kids they get along with. Kids that may get along better with one of them than the other. And Gonzalo never had a friend his age, so any time one of those kids decided they liked him, he'd be much more excited to go play with then than Petruccio would be if he made such a friend.

Petruccio probably became much better at taking care of Gonzalo out of necessity once they got the rings, and between their precarious situation and everything that they'd been through he feels like he's the only one Gonzalo can really trust.

And that Gonzalo's the only one he can really trust.

So seeing his dearest friend spend more and more time with someone else...

Gonzalo, used to Petruccio spending time with other friends, doesn't care as much. so he thinks it's funny. in fact he probably thought it was so funny as a kid he did it on purpose a lot. Part of it might've been because Petruccio would never have gotten so jealous if he didn't care about Gonzalo, and the thought made Gonzalo very happy.

it probably took a while for Petruccio to notice, and which point Gonzalo had chilled with intentionally making him jealous. he still thinks it's funny though.

[moonfurthetemmie]

Hiii I survived the hurricane

We actually got really lucky and the worst part was just power going out for a hot while. But we had enough gas for the backup generator to last us until the power came back, so we were able to plug the main fridge in and some of our window AC units.

In the 21 hours without power or internet I spun some more ideas for the Horror Theater Kid AU

In normal JMV and the normal Theater Kid AU, Obsidian is delighted that the people in Silver’s AU think he’s a god and is like “hell yeah I am! Bring me human sacrifices!!”

or some variation of that. In the theater kid AU Puck helps Lear make a big show about it

In the Horror Theater Kid AU, Gonzalo and Petruccio deny that Gonzalo is a god, but instead insist that they serve a much higher power. They are then called spiritual messengers, and the people gladly give them human sacrifices. Lodovico was not the first, and far from the last. But Gonzalo and Petruccio wanted to see if there was anyone there they could recruit somehow, or try to use to bring even a small bit Yighraru’s essence to their world, so the first few sacrifices were brought to them alive.

Lodovico is the only one who survived. While everyone from their home universe thinks they’re dead, it’s treated more like they were raised to sainthood. A great honor was bestowed upon them. They were taken away alive. They must’ve had something special in them.

So, Lodovico knows about this god shit, but they think it’s just an excuse to do satiate their bloodlust. At most, Gonzalo and Petruccio are completely insane. Their lack of faith is probably one of the reasons they were sacrificed so early on.

Antonio watched his family die. Gonzalo and Petruccio were going to sacrifice him, too, but they saw how much he cared for them while figuring out their plan of attack and decided it would be very entertaining to let him come home just in time for his spouse and child to see him ooonne last time.

He lost his shit. Understandably.

Unlike in normal JMV, Gonzalo and Petruccio weren’t wanting to cause a huge commotion. They didn’t have the resources (namely people) for the kind of display they really wanted to do.

So most of Antonio’s neighbors, who didn’t see Gonzalo and Petruccio and didn’t hear his family scream for help (because they couldn’t. Petruccio made sure of that very quickly), think that Antonio either just fucking snapped, or pissed off someone who was deeply unstable. The fact that Antonio was never seen again isn’t encouraging.

Antonio stays with them because he has nowhere else to go, and is terrified of what they’ll do if he tries to desert. He’s absolutely convinced his neighbors think he killed his family and the thought of trying to go back scared him even more. At least there are some people here who understand, and who are friendly.

Beatrice’s version of Ruby is still dead, but the pair were lured into the woods before Gonzalo and Petruccio tried to kill them. Ruby was caught off-guard, but Bea had a split second warning and managed to defend herself so well that Gonzalo and Petruccio thought she needed to join them. Much like in normal JMV, she wasn’t actually given a choice.

Isabella’s story is mostly the same as the normal theater kid AU. Including the part where only Gonzalo found her. There was a little portal mishap. Petruccio freaked. Gonzalo would’ve freaked but he was too busy being really fucking confused

He would’ve told Bella that she was a friend of his before, but in his distress and confusion he started with a “where the hell am I and who are you”, so. Kinda botched that one. But he still offered a way out of the anti-void, under the condition that she helps him and Petruccio with something. Bella tried to ask what, but she was too anxious to get out of there to really question why Gonzalo was being dodgy about it.

Probably she pissed Petruccio off by calling him a nerd (derogatory) for all the theater stuff and the plays he’s been writing. You do not insult his art. He will fucking get you. Gonzalo wasn’t too happy either.

The fact that Petruccio now asks her for her opinion and to proofread and stuff shows just how much he’s come to trust her now. Or perhaps he’s simply forgotten why they broke her mind. It’s hard to say. Bella certainly doesn’t remember anything about it.

[moonfurthetemmie]

I GAVE THEM NAMES

well. nicknames. But still

Source: SCP 701: The Hanged King’s Tragedy (link is to a summary of what the play “should” be without the actually anomalous stuff. Warnings for heavy implication of cannibalism and murder.)

Obsidian: Gonzalo

Jade: Petruccio

Koroit: Isabella

Zircon: Antonio

Paraiba: Beatrice

Silver: Lodovico

Mercury: Francisco

Jasper: Sortino

Zuli: Sforza

I haven't decided what version of DINTIS would be involved here. It would be fun to make a very specific version of them for this, especially given the eldritch shit happening. But it'd be funny if it was the normal Horror verse Jet and Dark (Astra + Umbra) and even funnier if it was still just normal Jet and Dark.

anyways, some nerding about 701 + explanations for why they’re named what they are:

so funny thing. The anomalous part of SCP 701 is that when the play is actually performed, there’s a (roughly 33%) chance that the actors and audience will go mad and kill each other or themselves. Also the apparition of a wrapped-up corpse covered in chains appears on-stage, slowly becoming more prevalent and the actors slowly start to acknowledge his existence.

The SCP play has an ambassador from Alagadda, which is a made-up place that exists only in the SCP multiverse. It’s an anomalous dimension and kingdom that’s ruled by…the Hanged King. From my understanding he looks like the apparition from 701, but take that with a grain of salt because i only have a handful of details and a poor memory

Anyways. I knew about this play already but forgot about the effects on the audience, the deviation from the plot, and the already vaguely eldritch lore around entities and places involved.

So now I need to fight myself to not make it an SCP AU in all but name, because that would be so convenient. too convenient. but oooogh if i don't steal it i'm definitely taking inspiration

Anyway. Reasoning for my choices:

Isabella: One of the three conspirators in the plot to kill the first king. Also the only female one named im sorry girl. Tbf tho Isabella was apparently less devoted to the plan than the other two, and having only relatively recently succumbed to the eldritch madness Koroit isn’t quite as insane as Jade and Obsidian

Gonzalo: As the more mentally disturbed of the two, Obsidian will probably never realize that what they’re doing is fucked up. At least in a ‘oh god what have we done and is it too late to fix it’ way. Also he’s officially in-charge so like. Yeah. king boy.

Petruccio: Petruccio confessed to the whole murder plot off-stage. While it would take a lot for Jade to have the ‘oh god what have we done and is it too late to fix it’ realization, it is possible. But more importantly, he’s absolutely determined to stick with Obsidian until the end. Fucked up besties <333

Antonio + Francisco: The two conspirators against Gonzalo, and the two of the JMV cast most likely to try and stop any and all of this. Mercury may have better luck, but he likely won’t try anything more than damage mitigation unless Zircon comes to him with anything resembling a plan.

Beatrice + Lodovico: Simply servants of Gonzalo and Isabella. They are complicit in the attempted murders scripted for the play, but are bound by the narrative and their positions to do as they’re told. Paraiba and Silver…theoretically they have slightly more power, but still.

Sortino: VERY bad joke about the duke getting put in the soup and Jasper being the cook. I’m sorry for this one. Jasper’ll be fine tho i promise. Or. He’s not going to be cannibalized. And he probably won’t die. he IS gonna get a little bit fucked up though. sorry. 

Sforza: …zuli might be screwed. I haven’t decided anything specifically but since he’s the worst off it was so so so tempting to name him after one of the characters that get super fucked up. He WAS going to be Sortino, but i didn’t want anyone to be the apparently annoying little priest (who didn’t even get more than a mention and a couple of lines), and ‘alinda’ didn’t fit anyone, and i so very much wanted to use Sforza anyways and had Mercury, Zuli, and Jasper left…

[moonfurthetemmie]

there was a conversation happening in The Discord Server about consensual cannibalism, which eventually derailed from its original context in real-life to the blorbos from our heads

Eventually, a question was asked: Are there any guardians/spirits who’d eat another guardian?

And I could think of a handful of JMV/DINTIS OCs from AUs I haven’t shared here...

...then I realized that Gonzalo and Petruccio probably would. with each other's consent.

double check the tags before you read please

rambling and brainstorming

I wasn’t sure at first whether it would be some contrived ritual for their Lord, or their own thing that had nothing to do with Yighraru

But I think it would more likely be the latter. Some form of “We will never truly be apart; we’ll always have a piece of each other with us.”

And it’s probably been happening for a while, by the present day. Several years, I think. They might not even remember when or how it started.

I’m still working out some details, but I think it'd be a regular every week/every other week thing. possibly. I'm also imagining specifically before they turn in for the night, which consequently gives them time to regenerate before the morning.

Since guardians/spirits can’t get sick, there’d be no consequences for them if they ate raw meat, so they could theoretically just take bites out of each other.

And I think they probably do? But do they do it like that all the time? Or would they cut pieces off sometimes? If they do, how much? Would they prepare it? How much of that depends on Sortino not being anywhere near the kitchen?

Although, I think, unfortunately for the mental state of everyone else, it would be a thing they do in private but not something they take drastic measures to hide. So if someone found out (or, worse, saw something), they wouldn’t really care. They might even think it’s funny to see how they react

So if they do cut pieces off and want it prepared, they might ask Sortino to do it. They likely wouldn’t outright tell him what the mystery meat is, but the whole thing would be weird enough that he would probably be afraid to ask.

They just…brought these cuts of meat and asked him to make something with them. They’re so fresh, they’re still warm and bloody. One is specifically for Gonzalo and the other for Petruccio. They might be limping slightly. They might have suspicious bandages. They’re definitely acting a little odder than usual. It’s pretty late and most if not all of the others are asleep.

He doesn’t want to know. He pretends they keep hunting wild boars or something and are just being particular because they're already kind of insane. He might be the only one they make an effort to hide it from, but only because they think he’d stop helping if he knew. And his cooking is so good :((

The age-old question: WHY??

It’s possible, I think, that since they spent almost all of Petruccio’s childhood (and most of Gonzalo’s) relying on the villagers for food, there was a period of time where they didn’t eat very well. They could scavenge stuff from the remains of the village, but not for 8+ years. Some things would go bad faster than they could find and eat it.

And it probably didn’t occur to them that it would happen, until they started having trouble finding anything. So they had to learn how to hunt almost entirely on their own (aside from maybe getting some tips from the occasional traveler), and while they were hungry.

There may have been a point where they were hungry enough to eat just about anything.

Most likely, Petruccio couldn’t bear to see Gonzalo so miserable and hungry, and since they can easily regenerate, offered to let Gonzalo take a few bites from him. Gonzalo didn’t want to hurt him, but he was so hungry that he said he’d do it if Petruccio did the same to him. So it wasn’t just him getting something to eat and Petruccio getting hurt and continuing to starve. Petruccio didn’t like the idea of it, but decided that making sure Gonzalo ate something was more important.

It sustained them for a few more days. But eventually they were hungry again. And Gonzalo had a tentative suggestion.

Between them (mainly Gonzalo) being so young, and their minds and sanity being warped by the rings, they were kind of starting to like the taste. But I think it continued mainly because they got curious how different various areas of their bodies would taste; like different cuts of meat from the same animal. Bacon isn't quite the same as a pork chop, and those aren't quite like pork spare ribs, but it all comes from pigs. Chicken breast isn't quite the same as chicken wings. Etc.

Over time they got used to the feeling of literally having bites taken out of them and didn’t do more than wince, so it could've slowly become more of a regular thing.

And I think eventually it did turn into a bizarre and horrifying form of "we'll always have a piece of each other with us" and it did become a regular thing, even once they were able to regularly and reliably feed themselves and didn't have to go hungry.

If that is what happened, then they almost definitely won't have remembered how it started, because they've been doing it for over a fucking century. Petruccio's a bit more likely to remember, being older when it happened, but still.

"Moon why are you making them do this"

horror au

Also I want to see what happens if and when they snap out of it and get some goddamn therapy. the more fucked up stuff i pile on the more angst we get in recovery.

I'm especially curious to see if they'd actually stop the cannibalism entirely.

They both agree to it, they make sure not to grievously injure each other, they aren't getting sick from it.

I feel like it might somewhat depend on who their therapist is (they are a bonded pair. do not separate. attempting to will severely negatively affect the recovery process) and whether or not they even bother mentioning it.

It's been going for so long that I don't think they'd see any reason to stop, beyond deciding they don't feel like doing it anymore. If their therapist was like 'oh my god what the fuck' and harped on it being Very Bad, they'd probably stop eventually, but it'd probably take a lot of convincing because of aforementioned reasoning. What's the problem? They're not seriously hurting each other.

Whatever therapist they get is almost definitely going to be quite horrified by it regardless. But as I said; it's entirely consensual, they're not seriously harmed, and they can't get sick from it. Plus they just regenerate any parts of their body that get removed. Someone may decide that it's probably okay, even if it still freaks them out. And probably comes in to the next session with a bunch of resources to go over with the two to make sure they're being as safe as possible.

"wow you got deep into that"

IRL cannibalism is terrifying. But it's awesome in fiction. Excellent plot device, great way to make things more horrifying, can be a metaphor for a lot of stuff.

Consensual cannibalism (IRL) is in a particularly weird place in my brain where it's like. Okay. That's horrifying. but if it is totally consensual, and measures are taken to make sure it's as safe as possible, then...?

Consensual cannibalism in fiction is really fun to play with, for above mentioned reasons; especially the metaphor thing. also adding regeneration like Gonzalo and Petruccio's makes it a little more interesting. Is it less horrific because they're not slowly killing each other, or more horrific because they can theoretically do it forever?

[moonfurthetemmie]

cracks knuckles. DU in the Fantasy AU

so obviously the deity they're entertaining in the Fantasy AU is an alternate version of Yighraru

(or, the funnier option, it’s the same Yighraru, and for some reason it just understands the mortals of the fantasy AU world way way better. It being the same entity that exists in a different dimension entirely would also kind of check out with the eldritch deity thing)

Petruccio and Gonzalo, probably when they were just starting out as warlocks, sort of communed with them by accident. It was an interesting conversation. It baked their noodles a bit. Yighraru is so goddamn bored that they asked if they could talk more, and seeing no real harm in it they agreed.

Eventually they began trying to summon demons to make a contracts with. Around this same time Yighraru tells them they've been watching the two for a while and is having so much fun with 'their strange hobby of playing pretend.' Could they do that more? Also what exactly is it??

They explain it. Yighraru is delighted by the concept. Gonzalo and Petruccio go "Y'know, we were kinda going to put together a traveling theater anyways. You can 'come along' and watch all you want!" and they go "YES PLEASE"

Deimos and Phobos are summoned. They're not happy about it at first, thinking they've been pulled away from the other and won't be able to spend much time with them anymore if they're *forced* into a mortal's service

and then they see TWO warlocks AND their demon bestie. Gonzalo and Petruccio are practically inseparable? Were planning on traveling around together anyways, so if Deimos and Phobos sign contracts with them they can stay together? okay yeah sure we can talk.

The contracts are made, and the four decide they’re going to need money if they really want to get their traveling theater troupe. So they decide to take some commission-type things to hunt monsters. This keeps the warlocks’ skills sharp, and gives them and the demons a good chance to learn each other’s fighting styles and figure out the best ways to work as a team.

Petruccio and Gonzalo also end up getting a lot of ideas for their own original productions, which they’re more than a little excited about. And Deimos and Phobos go “oh they’re so cute. They’re so excited about this.”

They slowly pick up more people. Alinda, Antonio, and their kid end up joining. Alinda has been studying the occult and various Lore of the outer gods. She's actually pretty excited to meet Gonzalo and Petruccio, because she’s heard that they’ve been talking to an outer god semi-regularly.

Antonio watches his wife like "Aw look how excited she is :] I love her so much I'm so glad we met these guys it's been a while since she's been so hyped up about something :]" He’s hard of hearing due to some semi-recent accident, but gets along fine.

Leetol Peony sometimes gets to act on stage with them for some performances! She's so excited. She often gets to help make props though and she always gets to come on stage at the end to take a bow as one of the prop/set designers

Isabella got recruited because Gonzalo and Petruccio saw her magic abilities and went “dude. Oh my god. Can you imagine the shit we could do with that?? She could do flashy stuff for her part AND set off special effects! Holy shit we need her on the team”

Bea and Lodo were just monster hunting and teamed up with the group for a few marks, and then Gonzalo and Petruccio went “you guys are really cool and we think you’d be awesome for our group. how do you feel about theater and acting”

Sortino was probably incidental. Like. He wanted to get out and decided running off with the traveling theater was a good way to do it, assuming they’d take him. His stage fright was way too much for him to join as an actor but he can cook like a god. And he was more than happy to help with set pieces and props.

Francisco was likely recruited early on because shit can happen and it would be a huge help to have a doctor with them. He probably helps with set pieces sometimes too.

Sforza I’ll have to figure out still. I’m toying with the idea that, for whatever reason, he can hear/speak to Yighraru incredibly easily, and between that, Gonzalo & Petruccio being quite curious about that, and Alinda being FASCINATED and wanting to (very gently) poke at him to see why that might be, he ended up tagging along. Not entirely sure what all he’s doing, though. Might just be hanging out.

Most of them actually didn’t initially really care so much about the theater thing. But, which the exception of Antonio, they didn’t really have anything else going on, and it sounded like fun to travel the world, so they agreed. And then they got really into it NWJSHSJ

Antonio was far more concerned with staying with his family than anything else, and Alinda really wanted to stick with them for a while and learn more about Yighraru, so he was happy to come along. He didn’t even have to join the troupe as an actor. He was probably just supposed to keep an extra eye out for any potential threats, but Peony wanted to act and begged her dad to join in a few shows. And he turned out to be really good and was having a lot of fun.

[moonfurthetemmie]

ok so hear me out,,,,

a handful of times i've talked about the Fantasy AU, which is a big, mostly-soft Fix-It AU where everyone's friendly (if not actually friends), and the biggest conflicts come from Misunderstandings and also the occasional generic monster attack that destroyed an entire town,,,

anyways. um. cheetah furry pretruccio?

I thought he'd make a good cat, but i couldn't decide which decals/fur patterns i wanted so i used a randomizer. that ended up working out tho because Cheetahs' claws are just Out all the time, like a dog or wolf's. i wanted the furry-looking paw feets, but they don't have retractable claws. win-win.

The first outfit is the "I'm going on a fucking QUEST and I need my GOOD gear" set, and the second is "Casual adventure time!!" or perhaps just general casual wear.

this time i actually made the questing outfit first. and then i thought "well. it's kinda unfair if the human dresses like a hoe but the cheetah furry doesn't." so i did the second one.

I'm thinking he and Gonzalo are warlocks, but the issue is that warlocks here work more like World of Warcraft warlocks than D&D warlocks, despite the heavy D&D inspiration.

In D&D warlocks pledge themselves to a deity of...dubious morality, at best.

In WoW, you just use Demon Magic and bind demons to your will to fight with you. and then obliterate your enemies.

...warlocks are fun in WoW

Anyways, the initial idea was that they're still pledged to some deity, but. that's D&D rules. And I'm not sure how to make it work with the WoW rules I'm using.

but it's also like 10:40 at night and i don't usually stay up this late. so.

[moonfurthetemmie]

now, I’m sure the rings are damn near indestructible because eldritch bullshit

But wouldn’t it be messed up if Petruccio and Gonzalo were so in-tune with them, because they’d been wearing the rings for so long, that if they started to break, it would give them debilitating headaches? Wouldn’t it be fucked if just trying to take the ring off to try and fix it put them in unbearable agony because putting any pressure on the cracked ring made them feel like you put their head in a hydronic press

and they wouldn’t take them off or let anyone else take them off either. It’s like the one ring; they get frantically possessive if you even suggest it

but the ring continues to break, and their pain gets worse, and there is nothing anyone can do for them

[moonfurthetemmie]

actually do you remember how I said Antonio made a point of avoid Gonzalo, Petruccio, and Bella, but Bella generally didn’t let him

what if Gonzalo and Petruccio told her that Antonio’s spouse was the leader of the resistance, and asked her to keep an eye on him in case he tried something.

which would make it much harder for Antonio to collaborate with Deimos.

And since he doesn’t know what Alinda had been up to, he doesn’t actually know why Bella’s been so insistent on hanging around

[moonfurthetemmie]

What would Gonzalo and Petruccio do if they figure out what Deimos is doing behind their backs. Would they just kill him or idk do whatever they did to Bella ?

Probably try to do what they did with Bella. They’d be really upset about it, though. They do genuinely like him, and don’t want to have to hurt him.

It’ll be much harder to get ahold of Deimos for that than it was Bella. He’s more powerful, and he can just. Melt into a puddle and zoom off

They may try to find another way to convince him to not try to stop them at first, but he’s very stubborn.

Having said all that…Deimos is still just A Guy. He’s pretty weak to Gonzalo’s magic. And Petruccio and Gonzalo are very, very creative. Also they can get Phobos to help catch him

Gonzalo and Petruccio have the upper hand here. Deimos’ best option is going to be to start running. Unfortunately, he’s not very likely to do that while Phobos is still in the manor, and those two know that. So…Its more likely that they’ll catch him and uh… “convince” him they’re and he doesn’t need to do anything against them. In fact, he should help them!

If Deimos does end up worshipping Yighraru with them, then Phobos is going to get much worse much faster. He might even, eventually, be brought into the inner circle and told all the secrets.

If, somehow, all of their attempts to make him join them still fail…

Well…unless they can find a reliable way to keep him contained (which will be very difficult, since neither MV has the technology for that like JR in DreamSwap does), he’s going have to go.

But that will be an absolute last resort. And they’ll need a day or so to recover from that; never mind figuring out a lie to tell Phobos as to what happened to his best friend/unofficial boyfriend.

They’re upset enough that they could probably easily convince him they witnessed An Accident or something like that, but they gotta figure out what would be the most believable.

[moonfurthetemmie]

when I was playing FFXIV a lot more I picked up on how the characters talk

Which is essentially “high fantasy”

You doesn’t say “please” you say “pray, [do thing]” or “if it please you”

You don’t say ‘yes’ you say ‘aye’

So on and so on. I could sit here for ages trying to find everything but I bring this up because I think it would be funny if Gonzalo and Petruccio spoke like that

Partly for the bit, bc it sounds a bit dramatic

And partly because that’s how Yighraru talks when it speaks to them. That’s how its words translate from its native tongue to whatever language Petruccio and Gonzalo speak. And for literal decades it was just them and its whispers so they picked up on a lot of it. It’s just engraved in their brains now. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the eldritch madness it’s just because they’ve been around it so long